erica xo.

Consulting in Music, Technology, DEI. Featured in NY Mag and Business Insider. Formerly with Warner Music Group and NARAS

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

Capitalism can be good and can break humanity.

[Aditya Mishra @adityamtweets]

Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?

This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.

Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.

If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@jenatlionra Do you think they'll start doing this now when it's never harmed them, to them it's not broken so it doesn't require fixing

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@jenatlionra You're seeing bias in humanity of the datasets the builders of it choose. The rooms making these decisions aren't diverse and now we can empirically see the damage it can cause

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

Can Elon Musk call himself a founder if he didn't build anything

[Sarah @araseb_]

Can you call yourself a founder if your entire product was built by Claude?

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@MorePerfectUS Mmm, I feel like you can't do an average based on all rents in the city where some of the wealthiest people in the world live

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@KevCoke6 Essence is diaspora now

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

I don’t know if he would be as effective and radical if he could be president.

[Julio Dos Santos @amiliov]

If he was born in the us, we'd be watching the rise of the next president

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@KevOnStage And some police are good - signed an HOA President lol

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

And the Romans were more unhinged so I can’t even imagine

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

This is seriously the cringiest collapse of a nation in real time.

[@Airy_X @airyxmusic]

I’m in the trailer!!!!! 🥳

Check us out Friday!! 💕⛳️🏌🏽‍♀️💜 🇺🇸

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

And the bad guy is the “winner”

Legend says that it was created to show the harms of monopolizing, when maybe instead it gamified monopolization

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

Barack could have been a Mamdani but he trusted the system and feared the backlash too much to be the radical we needed

I just realized it would be dope if Barack ran for mayor or Senator somewhere to prove who I hoped he would have been 🥀

[Jenni @hashjenni]

They were scared of Mamdani winning because now every city in every state across the whole country wants a Mamdani of their very own.

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

The love of money is the root of all evil.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it.

The United States and Israel.

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@Lawrenceduarte4 @blackishpress There will always be hateful people but I think that’s why he’s been successful, he never let the hate destroy him

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@Avoristrib I don’t think any ~vice industries should exist

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

@BootsRiley Democracy got us Trump in the White House, we need intelligence, organizing and movements to help make this a reality in spite of the zeitgeist

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

I imagine Trump would do business in Hawaiian shirts and shorts if we didn’t have the suit uniform that obscures if the wearer has good taste

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out.

The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.

[erica xo. @EricaThompson]

He bankrupted a casino

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out.

The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.